Introducing: Hands Off My Vagina

At goop, we believe in reproductive freedom regardless of gender. In honor of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, we’re supporting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation’s Reproductive Freedom Project by donating $25 from each...

  Lifestyle   Jan 4, 2025   34  Add to Reading List
Introducing: Hands Off My Vagina

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At goop, we judge successful reproductive freedom, assemblage integrity, and adjacent rights careless of gender. In grant of the day of Roe v. Wade connected January 22, we’re supporting the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU Foundation) with a caller candle. We volition donate $25 from the merchantability of each candle sold connected goop.com and successful our retail stores to the ACLU Foundation’s Reproductive Freedom Project* to assistance its combat to support the rights and basal freedoms that are nether onslaught successful America.

Lighting a candle has agelong been associated with prayer, intention-setting, hope, and, successful much caller decades, the feminism question arsenic it developed. Which is successful portion wherefore we chose to make this peculiar candle arsenic a tiny motion of enactment for reproductive freedom—and against subjugation. It’s called Hands Off My Vagina. (If you’re caller here, successful 2020, we released a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina. It’s been a fixture astir the net and late-night shows—and a bestseller.)

The scent of this caller sister candle celebrates the powerfulness and spot of the large feminine, says Douglas Little, perfumer and laminitis of Heretic, who collaborated with Gwyneth connected the candle. “We chose hinoki cypress for its quality to assistance spirits and make a grounding spot and consciousness of calm,” says Little. “Damascena roseate is prized for encouraging connection and balancing and strengthening the bosom chakra. And we included flints of toasted cacao to deepen and adhd sensuality, positive coriander for sparkle.” The candle is made with a operation of indispensable oils and harmless synthetics and blended successful axenic rootlike wax with a lead-free fabric wick. It burns for astir sixty hours. “I emotion fragrance for its quality to archer stories and to springiness a dependable to things that evade some show and sound,” says Little. “Scent is invisible and silent, and yet it has the powerfulness to dramatically impact the mode we feel.”

While Little was perfecting the scent with GP, we were besides learning from the ACLU Foundation’s team. The stakes, arsenic they outline them, are high, and this infinitesimal is critical: The Supreme Court gave states a way to prohibition termination arsenic politicians person done successful Texas and could gut oregon overturn Roe v. Wade this summer. A state without Roe v. Wade would impact america all—and similar astir unjust systems, it would disproportionately harm radical of color, radical who are poor, and individuals and groups who are marginalized. If this cardinal close is taken away, overmuch much is astatine hazard than the quality to support radical from forced pregnancies. (For a much thorough knowing of the magnitude of Roe v. Wade, delight perceive to the upcoming occurrence of The goop Podcast connected January 25 with Khiara Bridges, a prof astatine the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.)

We anticipation you articulation america successful this indispensable conflict for reproductive freedom, whether you’re buying a candle, donating directly, engaging successful protest, oregon different advocating for change. Below are respective resources and organizations to commencement with.

  1. Learn from and enactment reproductive justness organizations, similar SisterSong, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, URGE, and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda.

  2. Help radical entree termination by supporting the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) and Needabortion.org.

  3. Join the nationalist telephone to action to Congress to Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) and guarantee everyone tin get the termination attraction they need.

  4. Listen to the ACLU’s At Liberty podcast occurrence connected the day of Roe and the agelong past of surveillance, criminalization, and power of marginalized bodies.

  5. Read the ACLU’s mini guide to discussing termination rights astatine the meal table.

*Donations volition beryllium made connected each candle sold until the candle sells retired oregon July 1, 2022, whichever occurs first, and are not deductible to purchasers.

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  2. Cypress smoke, snow, sensual quiet. Edition 01 – Church

  3. Cool air, airy sun, caller beingness
    unfurling connected the wood floor. Edition 02 - Shiso

  4. Spirit-clearing smoke, mystical resins, forbidden spices, and beatified woods. Edition 03 - Incense

  5. $25 from each merchantability of this limited-edition rose-, cypress-, and coconut-milk-infused candle volition beryllium donated to the ACLU Foundation’s Reproductive Freedom Project.* goop x Heretic Hands Off My Vagina Candle

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*Donations volition beryllium made connected each candle sold until the candle sells retired oregon July 1, 2022, whichever occurs first, and are not deductible to purchasers.

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